Carbon fiber and nanotechnology will improve accuracy in archery

There have been some incredible technological advances in archery in the last two hundred years, but we are about to see a huge technological leap with new nano materials. Arrows and bows made from carbon nanotubes, graphene, and Bucky paper will make arrows super strong and very accurate, as well as thinner and therefore faster.

For the crossbow hunter, this gives them a huge advantage over wild game. Almost to the point where it’s not fair, of course it wouldn’t be fair to hunt wild mammals with a sniper rifle either. And if you’re hunting something that could hurt you, you don’t necessarily want it to be a fair fight anyway. Still, with these new high-tech materials there will be no competition.

However, there will be competition in archery, as all the participants are using these new materials. Accuracy ratios will be almost unheard of, target distances can be increased, but accuracy will be even better. Right now, the manufacturers of these nanomaterials have some hurdles and barriers to cross, but within the next five years they will revolutionize the sport of archery.

It will be very interesting to see what the Olympic judges determine when using these new, more precise materials. We are already seeing it with high-tech swimsuits, and special prosthetic legs for running, which give them a very exiled air. In the archery space, every athlete can use the same high-tech materials and thus equalize any advantage.

Still, for the first few archery contestants and athletes to have these new materials, they will have an advantage for at least as long as their competitors get the same tools. Please consider all of this.